Home » Quote » Ambrose Bierce » „Once, adj. Enough.“ „Once, adj. Enough.“ — Ambrose Bierce Related quotes „Alone, adj. In bad company.“ — Ambrose Bierce „White, adj. and n. Black.“ — Ambrose Bierce „Incompossible, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both — as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.“ — Ambrose Bierce „TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.“ — Ambrose Bierce „Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.“ — Ambrose Bierce „Un-American, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.“ — Ambrose Bierce „Positive, adj. Mistaken at the top of one's voice.“ — Ambrose Bierce „Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.“ — Ambrose Bierce „Rational, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.“ — Ambrose Bierce „Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.“ — Ambrose Bierce „Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.“ — Douglas Adams „Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested“ — Ambrose Bierce „Friendless, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense“ — Ambrose Bierce „Absent, adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded in the consideration and affection of another.“ — Ambrose Bierce „Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.“ — Ambrose Bierce „It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you.“ — Ernest Hemingway